Papers by Celeste Olalquiaga
Kaypunku, 2014
Este ensayo se enfoca en la obra visual inaugural de Jorge Eielson (1924-2006), la cual opera ya ... more Este ensayo se enfoca en la obra visual inaugural de Jorge Eielson (1924-2006), la cual opera ya una de las estrategias estéticas claves en su producción artística: el enraizamiento del presente con las culturas del antiguo Perú. Esta es la primera propuesta visual que integra un trato discursivo y material de la memoria cultural precolombina en el arte peruano del siglo XX. Dicha obra fue exhibida durante el mes de agosto de 1948 en la Galería de Lima y revela una innovadora apropiación de influencias artísticas europeas presentes en nuestro medio. Estas páginas recorrerán el contexto artístico peruano para deslindar la alternativa de Eielson frente al Indigenismo pictórico de José Sabogal y definir el surgimiento de una obra visual original que irá desarrollándose en las posteriores décadas.
Perspective, 2010
Reliquaire à paperoles d'origine fl amande (ordre des Carmélites) fi gurant sainte Catherine de S... more Reliquaire à paperoles d'origine fl amande (ordre des Carmélites) fi gurant sainte Catherine de Sienne, XVII e-XVIII e siècles, gravure sur parchemin rehaussée de gouache, os, papier, carton.
Revista De Occidente, 2012
Cuadernos de Literatura, 2015
生物化学与生物物理学报 英文版, 2004
Objective:By demonstration of the differences in hydrophile protein molecular of hepatic tissue i... more Objective:By demonstration of the differences in hydrophile protein molecular of hepatic tissue in rats, correlative protein molecular to intervention in hepatic fibrosis with Fuzheng Huayu decoction has been observed to seek. Methods: Injection of CCl 4 hypodermicly last for 4、8、12 weeks separately to make a dynamic animal model of hepatic fibrosis in rats and therapeutic intervention to them from the week 12th to 16th. Proteins in hepatic tissue were extracted by methods of protein extraction step by step and separated by 2-DE(2 dimensional electrophoresis) to detect the differential protein molecular among varied groups by silver stain. Results: According to gel maps among varied groups, approximately 1 000 to 1 400 protein spots was visible. Family proteins were observed in hepatic tissue and special proteins were observed in model group, in addition, special proteins varied from time to time. The differential proteins were about several deca to one hundred. Molecular weight and equipotentiality have been confirmed primarily in the course of the study. Conclusion: There are multi-aspects to the mechanism of anti-hepatic fibrosis with Fuzheng Huayu decoction and its intervention effects could be related to varied proteins.
Tumultes, 2010
... à la différence près que la logique des origines maintient une relation au temps chronologiqu... more ... à la différence près que la logique des origines maintient une relation au temps chronologique, tandis que pour l'essentialisme, le temps n ... ce qui est considéré comme naturel doit rester immuable afin que la culture, en l'occurrence la culture hégémonique occidentale, puisse ...
ABSTRACT:" With remarkable objects of art and nature, extraordinary events, eccentric biogra... more ABSTRACT:" With remarkable objects of art and nature, extraordinary events, eccentric biography and originsl theory plus many wonderful illustrations selected by the author.". Includes bibliographical references and index.
Materializing Memory in Art and Popular Culture, 2017
As the 21st century continues to grapple with the modernist legacy, an iconic building in Venezue... more As the 21st century continues to grapple with the modernist legacy, an iconic building in Venezuela stands out as an emblem of modernity's paradoxes. Representing both the breadth of utopian dreams and of their demeanor, El Helicoide de la Roca Tarpeya is a modern ruin like none other.
Extra-naturel (catalogue of Mark Dion exhibition), 2016
The history of the mythical Gorgon Medusa and that of its ocean homonyms, also known as jellyfis... more The history of the mythical Gorgon Medusa and that of its ocean homonyms, also known as jellyfish, are connected in many ways, not least in both the fascination and repulsion they inspire. This excerpt of a larger work in progress was published in the catalogue for Mark Dion's exhibition Extra Naturel, presented at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris, in summer 2015.
Cabinet, 2013
A short history of the modernist ruin El Helicoide de la Roca Tarpeya in Caracas, Venezuela.
West Coast Line, 2007
Rather than embarking on a historical reassessment about the notion of origins in philosophy, a t... more Rather than embarking on a historical reassessment about the notion of origins in philosophy, a truly daunting task for which I feel anything but prepared, and much less willing, what I would like to do here is outline a tentative, by no means exhaustive -and hopefully not exhausting -cultural trajectory of this notion, in other words, to attempt a certain understanding of the logic of origins, of how origins work in culture.
Revista de Occidente, 2012
R esulta fácil olvidar, en nuestro mundo saturado de imágenes, que no somos criaturas de uno, sin... more R esulta fácil olvidar, en nuestro mundo saturado de imágenes, que no somos criaturas de uno, sino de cinco sentidos, y que el privilegio otorgado a la visión tiene poco que ver con cualquier superioridad inherente. Por el contrario, de acuerdo con Aristóteles -considerado todavía por algunos como la mayor autoridad fi- [ 27 ] Se mira pero no se toca El papel de lo táctil en la era del exceso visual* Celeste Olalquiaga ¿Qué es el aura? Un peculiar entretejido de espacio y tiempo: la manifestación irrepetible de cierta lejanía, no importa lo cerca que esta se encuentre. WALTER BENJAMIN * Este ensayo fue publicado en Trevor Gould: Posing for the Public, The World as Exhibition, Hamilton and Montréal: Art Gallery of Hamilton/Musée d'Art Contemporain de Montréal, 2003: 83-99. Fue traducido al castellano por Francisco Morán para la revista online La Habana Elegante (otoño/invierno 2009) y revisado por la autora para Revista de Occidente.
What is Research in the Visual Arts? Obsession, Archive, Encounter, 2008
Trevor Gould. Posing for the Public: The World as Exhibition (catalogue for Trevor Gould's exhibition), 2002
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Papers by Celeste Olalquiaga
The project faltered mere months from completion and the building’s unfinished ramps were relegated to the backdrop of the city’s southern slum-covered hills. Despite myriad private and public attempts at recovery, El Helicoide has known only two uses: first, as a temporary refuge for almost ten thousand people in the late 1970s; then as a police headquarters and penal institution from 1985 on. Today it houses hundreds of political prisoners and has gained international notoriety as a torture center.
Downward Spiral is the first book to address El Helicoide’s extraordinary architecture and complex cultural history. El Helicoide is presented here as a living ruin, with its paradoxical status as half-abandoned, half occupied site that bearing witness not only to one of the most outstanding periods in Venezuela’s architectural history, but also to the social and political upheavals that modernity has entailed.
Celeste Olalquiaga and Lisa Blackmore, Editors
Contributors: Pedro Alonso, Carola Barrios, Ángela Bonadies, Bonadies + Olavarría, Rodrigo Blanco Calderón, René Davids, Liliana De Simone, Luis Duno-Gottberg, Diego Larrique, Vicente Lecuna, Engel Leonardo, Albinson Linares, Sandra Pinardi, Iris Rosas, Alberto Sato, Elisa Silva, Federico Vegas, Jorge Villota. Designed by Álvaro Sotillo and Gabriella Fontanillas.